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Making friends

Unlike in Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2, where the pilots make friends with each other, in Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3 the pilots make friends with the player. This results in only one friendship board. After pilots are introduced through the story missions, you must go to the Terminal and read their "hello" message. This is extremely important, as you cannot earn accord with these pilots, even if you play beside them in missions, until you have read this message and they appear on the friendship board under the "Records" tab. Once the character appears on the friendship chart, you can start to build accord with them and increase their friendship level to receive various benefits based on the individual characters. Also, unlike Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2, accord never decreases, even if you shoot the pilot down during missions. For playable pilots, there are five ways to earn accord with them and raise their friendship level.

Fight alongside them in battle. For every battle you fight on the same side as a pilot you gain a small amount of accord. This amount is slightly higher if they are active (not shot down and awaiting respawn) when you complete the mission.

If a pilot calls for help because they are losing a fight with another ace, you will get accord if you can get there and finish off the enemy before the friendly pilot is shot down.

There are special battlefield objectives that will randomly activate in the course of missions. Some of these objectives involve assisting other pilots. Successful complete one of these to earn some accord.

You automatically earn accord with whatever pilot you have set as your partner with every mission you undertake together. While you lose the opportunity for bonus accord from the first two methods since they will not spawn in the mission while set to partner, you are at least guaranteed a small amount of accord every mission.

Play as the character. You gain a small amount of accord for every mission you play as a character as well.

Because most (but not all) characters cannot be selected as a partner or as a playable character until they reach level 2 and 3 friendship respectively, you are limited to the first three methods initially. Most pilots have a story mission in which they are introduced. A good way to get mission time with them is to replay this mission. A lot of these into missions also involve you having to "rescue" them, so this makes these missions ideal for building accord. Like Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2, there are friendship missions you can perform as well. Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3 even has friendship missions for each Gundam series.

NPC friendship

For non playable characters, their friendship levels will depend on your relationship with the playable ones. Some of the non-playable characters want you to make friends with the characters from their respective series, while others prefer want you to make friends with the pilots from the story chapters they are associated with. Either way, making steady progress with you playable pilots will bring these friendships along eventually as a matter of course.

Level 5 friendships

Unlike levels 2 through 4, pilots will not enter the level 5 bracket as soon as their accord is high enough. Once accord is high enough for Level 5 with a specific character, it will unlock a special mission under the "Relationship" category under the "Missions" tab. This is always a high difficulty mission and is usually restricted to that particular pilot and their primary mobile suit. However there are exceptions. For example, Haman's level 5 friendship mission is actually completed by Banagher Links in his Unicorn Gundam. Remember, getting the pilot to level 4 does not unlock their Relationship mission automatically; you still must earn additional accord to unlock it.

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Press X while the character spins on the pad to make him move faster. Repeat the process to make him move faster each time.